Matilda (Colour Edition)

Roald Dahl's much-loved Matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour. This new edition sits alongside George's Marvellous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, also in full colour, paperback editions. Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve . . . Matilda is also a phenomenally successful, award-winning London stage musical, adapted for the stage by Dennis Kelly with music by Tim Minchin. Roald Dahl is the World's Number One Storyteller, with global sales of over 100 million. Born in Llandaff, Wales in 1916, his books are still loved by millions all over the world, despite his death in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the world's best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's stories without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was sixteen. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Besides being an illustrator he taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art and in 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate! Six years later he was awarded a CBE for services to children's literature and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours - which means his full title is Sir Quentin Blake, although we can still all go on calling him Quentin as usual. 'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams